Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver everyone is tipping to be a future world champion … |
| 2 | I did actually get over to work for them in 1968–70 and 1971 , but this story I am referring to was in 1967 when I was just paying a visit and was given a bed for the night in the hostel . |
| 3 | Those who pursue comparisons of the kind I am referring to are likely to be impressed by the staying-power of a literary preoccupation to which a variety of temperaments and compulsions has been attracted , and could well be inclined to believe that Pechorin 's duel and indifference may have been among the precedents that weighed , a century later , with a woman bent on contriving her appointment with destiny . |
| 4 | I was sitting there waiting for the grub to show when Martin Amis came through the open door — you know , the writer I was chatting to in the pub the other night . |
| 5 | It was there all the time but I had turned my back upon it in a sense , so when I got converted , and of course I was listening to the Big Man 's comments on events and I recognized the validity of what he was saying . |
| 6 | This afternoon I am going to a memorial service for a woman who devoted her whole life to caring for others . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps falling in the water — ’ Ronni glared at him , bluffing , struggling to get back in control of her emotions ‘ — was n't the nasty experience I was referring to . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm going , for work experience I 'm going to Saxted Ministry up there hopefully to see what it 's like looking after children you know , like a nursery and everything . |
| 9 | I 've found that my perception of acting and movie-making has changed drastically since I hung up my addiction , and I 've finally realized what damage I was doing to my career . |
| 10 | Thinking I was going to be pulled into some thicket and raped and murdered . |
| 11 | It completely slipped my mind I was going to be accused of theft ! |
| 12 | As the role of er , business in the community is well at the top of personal agenda , in my job as I B M Personnel Director and Director of Corporate Affairs , the Corporate Affairs bit , er , is the piece I 'm going to be talking about . |
| 13 | ‘ Next term I 'm going to be teaching part of a course on the influence of gender on style , ’ Loretta added , again to little response . |
| 14 | Moustaine explained in a low , controlled voice that any violence which was going to be dished out would come from him and the Corporals . |
| 15 | Barney , of course , is currently struggling his way through the next set of fabulous lyrics for the upcoming New Order album which is staggering to completion . |
| 16 | In future she is going to be harder . |
| 17 | When I was very young — about 5 years old — I wanted to be a pilot because I had this girlfriend who was going to be a stewardess . |
| 18 | It is the future you are walking to . |
| 19 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 20 | Earthtrust removed the dead bodies and organised regular supplies of fish for the surviving dolphins in Shakang Harbour who were starving to death . |
| 21 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 22 | Cheques were presented by Judy Stewart and Richard Calderwood to Wallace Gregg , who is travelling to New Zealand later this year on a YFC exchange programme , and to Kenneth Rock who is going to Sweden . |
| 23 | Because if you 're speaking from a script you 're going to be speaking like this . |
| 24 | Must be this wedding you 're going to tomorrow . |
| 25 | What she did say was , ‘ In future there 's going to be a new rule : you 're going to have your bath before your daddy comes home . ’ |
| 26 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
| 27 | There 's fear hanging over everybody with the local government review there 's going to be mass redundancies . |
| 28 | In fact radio is alive , kicking and expanding , and there are thousands of hours of radio going out , locally particularly , and every indication there are going to be more and more community radio stations in the future , and this is hungry time for material , so lots of opportunities in that particular way , at this stage . |
| 29 | I think the long term results of this are entirely good , but in the short term there 's going to be major instability , making life possibly quite nasty for everyone . |
| 30 | If only those people realised the harm they are doing to their health by not allowing themselves to show what they really feel — sometimes not even admitting those feelings to themselves — perhaps they would unbend a little . |